Hello lovely Dutch ppkers! I am staying in Den Haag for work for essentially the month of March at the Parkhotel. Any suggestions on where I should eat and what I should do? What are the vegan essentails at the grocery stores there? I have a kitchen in my room so I should be able to prepare some meals, but I am there for work so I can justify trying out any and all great vegan eats! Thanks ppk!

The Vegetarian Butcher is located in the Hague. Not all of their stuff is vegan, but a good chunk is! I haven't been in to their store (it's been a few years since I've been to DH), but I know the stuff they sell at other stores is marked either as "100 plantaardig" (which is vegan) or "100% vegetarisch" (which is not vegan). I don't know much about places to go out in DH, but wasn't there a PPK meet up that went there to some place that serves vegan fondue? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Ooh, checking out Happy Cow, it looks like there's a Cigkoftem there! I think some of their side dishes have meat but their main product - kofte - is vegan. And yummy!

Oh, and I second what lutin says about Rotterdam. Just braved the snow this week to go there (ostensibly for a Van Eyck exhibition) and ended up getting cupcakes (at Heavenly Cupcakes) and vegan Chinese food (at de Oude Plek). Yummm!

_________________I ate the shiitake out of inappropriateness. - Hollie

I think the place with the fondue is De Hagedis. Bun, veg_eric, pickledtreats also went to lunch that day, I don't know what the place was called. But I couldn't make it to Den Haag that early (catmergency) and they brought me something tasty!

Around the corner from the Vegetarian Butcher is a vegetarian Chinese grocery store, they sell lots of fake meat and the people that work there are very friendly and helpful. Also in Den Haag there is a hamburger joint called Burgerz, they sell the Dutch Weed Burger which is vegan: http://www.burgerz.nl/

Also, I have a proposition for one of you - if someone could help me the first time in the grocery store as I do not speak a lick of Dutch and don't know the brands, I will bring them whatever they want in North American products that are likely hard/impossible to find there or very expensive. Any takers?

Also, I have a proposition for one of you - if someone could help me the first time in the grocery store as I do not speak a lick of Dutch and don't know the brands, I will bring them whatever they want in North American products that are likely hard/impossible to find there or very expensive. Any takers?